Letlaka, Palesa Nthabiseng2016-03-012016-03-012016-03-01http://hdl.handle.net/10539/19861A research report submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (History) February 2013This study examines the gendered histories of two black women who both narrated their personal testimonies in self-authored narrations for public consumption, and who both testified at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It situates the politics of subjectivity, memory and historical consciousness within the social constructivist and hermeneutical theoretical frameworks of Butler and Ricoeur respectively; and through a generative process, working with their TRC testimonies and subsequent oral interviews, it examines self-narrativity, subject formation and the formation of female selfhood in the formation of gendered historical consciousnessenSouth Africa. Truth and Reconciliation CommissionApartheid--South AfricaHuman rights--South AfricaAmnesty--South AfricaReconciliation--Political aspects--South AfricaGender identity--South AfricaSouth Africa--Politics and government--1989-1994South Africa--Politics and government--1994-Thesis